I am currently a Senior in College who has a competitive GPA and MCAT score, with good recommendations by professors. I was just accused of academic dishonesty by one of my blowoff classes. I was careless and did not do enough paraphrasing on a relatively small assignment and was called into her office to talk about possible options for me going forward after her accusation of me plagiarizing. There wasn't much I could've done because she was right I took information from an outside source and did not cite it appropriately in my assignment for the amount of paraphrasing I did. I chose not to take the issue to Student Judicial Services and opted to take the zero on the assignment and now I have a record on file (Not on transcript, private record between me and school- so Medical Schools cannot see in application).
My Questions:
1. Will this have a large impact on my application that will be submitted this coming cycle?
2. I know there are questions such as "Were you ever the recipient of any action by any college or professional school for unacceptable academic performance (e. g. academic probation, suspension, dismissal, etc.)?".
Does my incident apply to this question since repercussion was taken by the professor and not the University Judicial Services?
Thanks for the input!
My Questions:
1. Will this have a large impact on my application that will be submitted this coming cycle?
2. I know there are questions such as "Were you ever the recipient of any action by any college or professional school for unacceptable academic performance (e. g. academic probation, suspension, dismissal, etc.)?".
Does my incident apply to this question since repercussion was taken by the professor and not the University Judicial Services?
Thanks for the input!